Fairmont Terrace apartment manager defends safety measures undertaken in wake of quadruple murder

TULSA - After receiving a bombardment of negative PR over the last month, Fairmont Terrace's apartment manager is speaking out in defense of the complex.

Angela McGinnis says Fairmont has enacted a number of security measures since four women were murdered in one of the apartments.

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A pair of newly installed cameras and daily checks of residents' police records is keeping crime out, McGinnis says. Even more, McGinnis says that if an arrest surrounding violent crime, robbery or drugs is made, everyone living in the apartment would then be evicted.

The Fairmont manager is also confident in the complex's background check protocol. A resident 2NEWS spoke with said it took a month to pass the check for the Section 8 housing.

In the weeks following the quadruple homicide, Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan and Mayor Dewey Bartlett have been very vocal in their criticism of the complex and its out-out-state ownership.

"We can now get to the essence of this issue and that is much bigger than crime, it's about poverty," Bartlett said. "We're moving forward on our mission to establish a method to hold out-of-state apartment owners accountable for safe, secure and peaceful lives to live."

Earlier this month, the mayor announced during a forum centered around the reformation of the crime-riddled 61st and Peoria area that he would propose a new ownership licensing process to the City Council by the end of February.